Relations between Moscow and London deteriorated in early March after former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found unconscious in a shopping center in Salisbury. Kosachev, who heads the foreign affairs committee in the upper house of the Russian parliament, said "I believe sooner or later we will learn the truth and this truth will be definitely very unpleasant for the prime minister of the United Kingdom".

As a result, the Red Luas line is not travelling to Tallaght. Many routes around the country the country are hazardous and Dublin airport temporarily suspended runway operations to clear fallen snow earlier this morning. The forecaster says it will be a cold and windy overnight with snow showers in the east continuing to spread across the country. Temperatures will dip to -1 to -4C with severe frosts with blustery easterly winds continuing.

In a rare joint statement, the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and the United States on Thursday condemned the attack on Skripal and his daughter Yulia - both in a critical but stable condition in hospital - as an "assault on UK sovereignty".

The White House in a statement said, "Vice President Pence reiterated that President Trump's request that the Pakistan government must do more to eradicate the continued presence of Taliban, Haqqani Network, and other terror groups opearting on their soil".

According to the Turkish General Staff, the operation aims to establish security and stability along Turkey's borders and the region as well as to protect Syrians from terrorist oppression and cruelty. Syria's civil war entered its eighth year this week with heavy fighting on two fronts - around Afrin and in the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta , near Damascus.

The assault occurred at a military observation post near Mevo Dotan, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Israeli Ynet News said Daus was a company commander of army's "search and rescue" brigade, while Kahalani was a driver in the Menashe Brigade.

Russia responded in kind on Saturday, when the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Laurie Bristow , the British ambassador to Russia, to tell him that 23 diplomats have one week to leave Russia "in response to the provocative actions of the British side and unsubstantiated accusations", according to a statement.

On March 5, around a week before firing Tillerson via Twitter, Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting that the United States would pull out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal if his demands to make "significant" changes to the agreement were not met, USA media reported , citing officials.

As of 4:30 p.m., the indoor portion of the mall had been reopened. Shoppers had been locked down at The Oaks mall in the city of Thousand Oaks , about 64km west of Los Angeles. Jeffrey Simpson was inside a department store at a Southern California mall when it suddenly went into lockdown. Police kept shoppers in the mall for more than an hour, but the shoppers were free to move around and employees were helping people stay comfortable and calm.

Army spokesman Lt Col Devender Anand told THE WEEK that Pakistan shelled a village close to the line of control at 7.45 am. Army troops retaliated strongly and effectively to silence Pakistani guns, he said. Skirmishes along the LoC, the de facto frontier, and the worldwide border have seen sharp rise in last one year, as ties have steadily gone downhill following terror strikes and unrest in the Kashmir Valley.

Rahul also urged all opposition parties - national and regional - to come together with a single-point agenda of unseating the BJP from the Centre. Shah said the UP government under Yogi Adityanath is among the best BJP-run state governments.

Britain's foreign minister, Boris Johnson also claimed that it is " highly likely " that Putin himself ordered the nerve-agent attack on the spy. The Foreign Secretary's comments were rebuked by Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov , who said: "Any reference or mentioning of our president is nothing else but shocking and unpardonable diplomatic misconduct".

And while it is ordering the closure of the United Kingdom consulate in St Petersburg - both Moscow and Ekaterinburg remain open. Russian Foreign Ministry informed in its announcement . The British Council, whose activities in Russian Federation were suspended by the Kremlin on Saturday, is a registered charity that uses education and culture to spread British soft power internationally.

Russia's move this morning to expel British representatives and close the British Consulate-General in St Petersburg and British Council in Moscow was "anticipated", a government spokesperson said . In a dramatic twist Friday, London's Metropolitan Police said that the death of Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov , who was found dead Monday in his London home, was now being treated as murder.

Yesterday, the Special CBI court had made three former bureaucrats of Bihar accountant-general's office accused in the fodder scam . The RJD party members came armed with copies of a newspaper article that said that a regular case was filed by the CBI against Lalu Prasad in the land-for-hotels deal even though the legal wing of the CBI said there was "no evidence" against him.

Alexei Chepa, deputy head of the foreign affairs committee in Russia's lower house of parliament, said Saturday that he expected additional measures to be taken by the British government in response to Russia's actions today. The first use of a nerve agent on European soil since World War II is a direct challenge to the Western alliance, days before elections are nearly certain to give Vladimir Putin a fourth term as Russia's president.